Cemento armato
Un saggio divulgativo sulle svariate forme di illegalità che caratterizzano le città italiane, tra abusivismo e occupazioni abitative, infiltrazioni criminali e corruzione
Tag: housing
Three theses on informal housing
This article argues for a more holistic interpretation to housing informality in Europe
A fine-grained understanding of informality
This article focuses on the role of subjective meanings in the production of informal housing
Reconceptualising housing emptiness beyond vacancy and abandonment
This paper proposes a precise conceptualisation of the main states of emptiness of housing assets. Four critical conditions are identified: uncompletedness, long-term vacancy, under/un-occupancy, abandonment
Housing precarity
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the
investigation of the housing conditions of migrants
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire
This is a comment on a recently published paper on Planning Theory, entitled “Asking ‘Third World questions’ of First World informality”
Beyond proper political squatting
This article focuses on the illegal occupation of public buildings for residential purposes in Italy that occurs outside any explicit political framework
Informal Housing of the Rich
This article investigates illegal housing for upper-income residents in the protected forest area of the eastern hills of Bogotá
Le regole dell’informalità abitativa
Il saggio indaga la peculiare pratica di occupazione informale degli alloggi pubblici a Napoli, il subentro informale
Global self-urbanism
This chapter will first analyse the birth of self-urbanism and identify its constitutive features. It will then argue that one of the main implications of self-urbanism is the rise of a new institutional fragmentation that overthrows the traditional boundaries drawn by public authorities and fuels spatialised forms of unequal urban citizenship